Day 8 - Broke it.
You'll all moan at me but to be fair I found concentrating on not contacting her to be counterproductive.
All I kept thinking is I wonder if I've managed to finally upset her, I wonder if she's angry now, I wonder if she wants to contact me but isn't sure of the response, etc
she was on my mind about 80% more than before I did the NC!
I'm not one of the people on here that's madly in love or wanting to get back with an ex (she wasn't an ex anyway - she started as a pure friend which went to FWB)
Doing NC was kind of giving her a status in my mind she didn't deserve. She wasn't a long term GF, or someone I was going to get serious with one day.
She was an ex employee who became a friend that was all, so I should let it drop in the way I did with all the others.
She rang we chatted normally, I don't feel like contacting her further and I may ignore further calls - to be honest I feel in myself I need to move on and look for opportunities, but the good thing is i'm not obsessing all day over the fact I can't contact her. I can just go about my normal day ignoring her for no reason, rather than having a grand plan in place.I think I can allow this one to just fizzle out.
I think NC is amazing in the right context, and I wish had done NC when I had more power like just after she met her next FWB back in July, but now her long term ex BF is back on the scene as well and no amount of this will get me back to the situation I liked being in with her. You have to be realistic at the end of the day.
I have learned so much though, and I will definately stay on these forums. Men should be taught about Alpha/Beta behaviour at school. I was brought up in a generation which was taught about the 'New Man' and how you were supposed to suck up to ladies and make them breakfast in bed and clean the dishes etc, and be a walkover. There must be a whole generation ****ed up with that nonsense.
I've gone through old messages i've written to her and found chunks and chunks of cringeworthy AFC behaviour, stuff I know I would never do again. I was too easy with compliments, too eager to do anything to help her or solve her current problems, she would send me instructions like 'go to the post office and pick up my parcel' and I'd just do it no questions asked. She'd be overly sarcastic about a comment and I'd let it just be. There were flashes of Alpha here and there but I reckon I was 75% Beta with her. I have learned some big lessons even if i'm not focused enough to do NC properly.
The real trick is not to lose their interest in the first place by using Alpha techniques to your advantage. With future fwb's or girlfriends I will certainly be disappearing off the radar for a day or two occassionally rather than being available 24 hours a day seven days a week for every little tiny whim.